Dayton’s population has been shrinking since the 1960s. Most of the area’s factory jobs are long gone. To save the city, Schultz has embraced a new idea: Help immigrants and refugees lay roots in Dayton.

While fresh water is abundant in our region, water loss has an economic cost. It is common for local water utilities to lose between ten and twenty percent of treated drinking water in transmission due to leaky underground pipes.

Front and Center and Wisconsin Watch collaborated to report on the recent shift in the politics of wetlands protection. Below, we see how political contributions may be impacting the wetlands conversation.
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The last decade was an especially tough one for Michigan: The state had the highest unemployment figures in the country for four years straight, peaking around 14 percent. Over the last decade, the population in 15 of its 20 largest cities shrank.

Front and Center's report illustrated how Pure Michigan was a successful effort to rebrand the state but Eight Forty-Eight wondered about a brand for the entire Great Lakes region. Jeff Leitner and Howell J.